Transportation

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Council Urges State Funding to Avoid Transit Fiscal Cliff

Staring down the barrel of at least a $22 billion budget deficit, Gov. Newsom and the Legislature will have some hard choices to make in the coming...
Council Applauds Federal Grant for Critical Golden Gate Bridge Seismic Work image

Council Applauds Federal Grant for Critical Golden Gate Bridge Seismic Work

Federal officials gathered in San Francisco this week (Jan. 23) to celebrate the awarding of a $400 million federal grant to seismically retrofit t...
<a>Major Victory! CA Supreme Court Ruling Unlocks Windfall for Bay Area Transportation</a> image

Major Victory! CA Supreme Court Ruling Unlocks Windfall for Bay Area Transportation

Better late than never. The Bay Area Council this week (Jan. 25) wildly cheered a ruling by the California Supreme Court tossing a lawsuit that has...
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Council Working to Restore Confidence in Public Transit

Public safety is the core of a functioning and productive society and vital for attracting and retaining a competitive workforce, however concerns ...
Return to Work Survey: 65% of Employers at “New Normal” image

Return to Work Survey: 65% of Employers at “New Normal”

The future of the Bay Area’s transit systems and urban centers is becoming more clear thanks to new data from the bi-monthly Bay Area Council Ret...
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Progress in Effort to Better Unify Regional Transportation Systems

Do you think the region is best served by 28 separate transit and transportation agencies that often operate independently and with little coordina...
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Big Week for Water Transportation

There was a lot going on over the past week in the regional water transportation (aka ferry) world. The Bay Area Council hosted a floating meeting ...
Exciting Outlook for Waterfront Mobility in the Bay Area image

Exciting Outlook for Waterfront Mobility in the Bay Area

This week the Bay Area Council launched its new Waterfront Mobility Committee under the leadership of co-chairs Heather Salem (Genentech) and Emily...
Return of Workers to Offices Creeping Up as More Employers Embrace “New Normal” image

Return of Workers to Offices Creeping Up as More Employers Embrace “New Normal”

Thirteen months of survey data provided by Bay Area employers show we may be living in the “new normal” for in-person office work and public tr...
New Report: Benefits of Optimizing Land Uses Near Transit Stations image

New Report: Benefits of Optimizing Land Uses Near Transit Stations

A new brief from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute this week highlights the benefits of optimizing land use at transit stations, with a parti...
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